Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. And when you consider the trends for most concept workers (knowledge workers), we clearly are heading towards faster moving content aimed at smaller audiences.

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Knowledge Worker Agile Instructional Design eLearning Strategy 134

ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create. Such knowledge workers who are intrinsically passionate about their work are notoriously difficult to find and keep, writes Jay. Such innovative knowledge worker is a "different beast" to use Jay's words.

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Knowledge Worker Write Blog Collaboration Diversity Training 137

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

The post gives a classic example of where instruction was replacing involvement. how typical knowledge workers do not appreciate being instructed; involvement is the key to motivation. I mentioned in an earlier post-- Collaboration: A mantra that makes work play! --how

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Collaboration Providers Knowledge Worker Specialist 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

In those days, I was just a rookie instructional designer trying to write storyboards and grasp the basics of e-learning. My introduction to Jay had been through his book Informal Learning. Needless to say, it had become my bible to understand what social learning is and could be in the context of workplace learning.

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Storyboard Knowledge Worker Community Instructional Design 100

Allison Rossett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It began with a few years as a high school English teacher, then several decades as professor of instructional design and technology at SDSU, all the while occupied with consulting engagements about adoption of technology, sales training and leader development. Take knowledge workers like doctors and Army captains.

Performance Support 144

Performance Support Support Performance Training 144

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2006

There's little practical advice that can assist Instructional Designers in what the evolved forms really are. Instead this step gets skipped, even just doing a one hour analysis can save learners hours of time in terms of focusing the instruction. Clark Quinn training and instructional design don't cut the mustard.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction ADDIE 100

Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2015

My professional interest is shifting to helping knowledge workers learn and flourish without training. Thinking about learning from the learner’s point of view is different from looking on it as a learning executive or instructional designer. It’s the underground passageway to success.

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Knowledge Worker Instructional Design CLO Brain 36

Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. We like to think knowledge workers spend all day "problem-solving" but in reality they spend all day finding out what procedure should be followed in what situation.

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Simulations Customer Service Knowledge Worker Learning 195

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This important nuance of education was relegated during the era of mass instruction, where entire classrooms of individuals were taught at the same pace, at the same level of understanding and in a uniform environment where behaviour was strictly standardised. It is also a poor method of learning.

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Cognitive Theory License Creative Commons 61

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Today I read Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto. A few gems from Weapons of Mass Instruction : Quoting H.L. Sad to say, Weapons of Mass Instruction , like the title itself, is stronger on flashy, firebrand rhetoric than inner logic. Those workers kept the railroads and factories humming efficiently.

Instructional 36

Instructional Instruction Blended Learning Predictions 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Today I read Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto. A few gems from Weapons of Mass Instruction : Quoting H.L. Sad to say, Weapons of Mass Instruction , like the title itself, is stronger on flashy, firebrand rhetoric than inner logic. Those workers kept the railroads and factories humming efficiently.

Instructional 36

Instructional Instruction Blended Learning Predictions 36

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When we’ve called it either an instructional designer or writer we often find ourselves talking to people who have a hard time envisioning the online interactions. We’ve talked with writers who have incredible experience in publishing for teens (magazines, books) but they don’t get the instructional and interaction aspects.

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Interactive Write Blog Instructional Design Social Networks 100

Learningtogo

AUGUST 26, 2021

The machine requires instructions—a program—to perform this task. digital assistants for enterprise knowledge workers. These are a few that I’ve called out for our purposes as learning professionals. 1837: Charles Babbage invents “the analytical engine,” a machine designed to perform mathematical calculations.

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Cognitive IBM Simulations Brain 165

Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Perfect for learning and development (L&D) knowledge workers and educators, there’ll be discussions about the keys to transforming the challenges of digital workspaces into opportunities for growth and well-being. AI Voice rises to this challenge. But are you tuned in? Innovate continuously to remain successful.

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Free Diversity Training Develop Simulations 72

ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

The book is divided into the following key sections: Working Smarter Informal Learning Social Learning The Business Case Develop your Elevator Pitch Cheat Sheets Instructional Design 2.0 Tags: Jane Hart Jay Cross Management Instructional design Business Jon Husband Harold Jarche Clark Quinn wirearchy informal learning.

Instructional Design 137

Instructional Design Pattern Wikipedia Collaboration 137

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. It also encourages emotional as well as instructional support. The peer-to-peer environment of CoPs fosters employees’ natural trust in advice from someone in their situation.

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Communities of Practice Facebook as a Learning Platform We Need a Degree in Instructional Design Learning styles don't exist 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments How long does it take to create learning?

Social Networks 139

Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

“When Taylor started working, nine out of ten people were manual workers. Today, nine out of ten people are knowledge workers. .” 4 - Productivity revolutions and the most misunderstood man in history – Esko Kilpi, 13 January 2013. But the struggles we face with productivity may be the same.

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Resources Social Networks Instant Messaging Portfolio 222

Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

Choose the Right Pilot Group - Kapp Notes , May 22, 2009 Presentation: Social Bookmarking with Delicious - Don't Waste Your Time , May 15, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design, Part 1 - The E-Learning Curve , May 19, 2009 Meeting icebreaker-How to get a group to acknowledge differences in perceptions.

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Social Media Mobile Learning Media Social 104

Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

. “ A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means “standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult.” Yet, for our adult learners, we still make learning programs that include tightly packed instructions.

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Blended Learning Performance Support Education Blended 173

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Where I work, the e-learning team occupies 4 large rows with instructional designers, graphic designers, programmers, technicians, project managers spread out and rubbing shoulders in happy abandon. And analysis also shows that most knowledge workers are likely to turn to their neighbor to discuss a problem than consult a database.

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Network Analysis Collaboration Social Networks 128

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2010

Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ). So, here’s what we are already seeing this year. Interesting to me to see that these pop to the top. That was probably only two years ago for most of us.

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Innovation Compliance Training Google Wave PKM 111

Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Millions of knowledge workers and their managers have been told they are responsible for their own learning but have no more idea what to do than the dog who got on the bus (Now WTF do I do?). ”. “ I have to admit that I like pushing people’s buttons to get them to think about what’s really going on. ”. “

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Knowledge Worker Informal Learning ROI Score 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 1, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. What strikes me about this whole DIY/informal learning/death of ISD conversation is that what were really talking about are those so-called motivated knowledge workers. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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Instructional Design Job Moodle ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization eLearning 2.0 100

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Coach: What types of challenges do newer technologies, such as mobile and podcast, present to the instructional designer? Having said that, another challenge confronting instructional designers is to “think outside the classroom” paradigm. It means audio-based instruction that someone calls and receives from an automated menu system.

Instructional Design 77

Instructional Design Design Wiki Simulations 77

Instancy

JANUARY 25, 2011

technologies enable rapid knowledge content creation by not just having a one-directional information flow from the instructional designer or subject matter expert to the learner. There is a big push now to encourage participation from the end-users/knowledge-workers – a community–based learning and knowledge management environment.

Social Networks 52

Social Networks Technology Mashups Management 52

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

What is required for any nation to succeed is an educational system that is responsive to the needs and demands of its information society, a world where knowledge workers replace production-line workers, and where creative and critical thinking skills are more important than rote learning or following instructions.

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License Creative Commons Knowledge Worker Education 101

ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? Social Media for Knowledge Workers: eLearning Technology (Tony Karrer) 10. Design and plan 80% of the way as the very next step. Use feedback to solve the remaining 20% in the very next step after that. It's all about the mindset. Networking = Learning?

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Agile PKM Training Train 105

Disprz

AUGUST 9, 2022

Most companies focus on the knowledge workers and pay little or no attention to the frontline workforce. Proper onboarding is crucial for industries like manufacturing, shipping, transportation, instruction, retail, warehousing, distribution, and energy. Without them, business operations might just come to a halt.

Performance 52

Performance Blended Learning Diversity Training Module 52

Jay Cross

MAY 2, 2015

Sold instructional systems that taught a million bankers how to make decisions and sell bank services. Millions of knowledge workers and their bosses can prosper by adopting modern practices for working smarter and remembering things. Learned to speak with audiences because I had to sell, sell, sell. Eighties and nineties.

Change 36

Change Case Study ISPI Virtual World 36

Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means “standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult.” Yet, for our adult learners, we still make learning programs that include tightly packed instructions. Lemony Snicket.

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Blended Learning Blended Education Learning 100

Mindflash

APRIL 4, 2016

Employing concepts such as awareness training instead of systems of self-discipline, will take a bit of adjustment and time to learn, as well as some creative instructional design; but, these alternative approaches can potentially lead to more engagement, motivation, and improved productivity in the not so distant and “in the now” future.

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Alternatives Management Multitasking Training 40

Instancy

JULY 15, 2015

Most learning programs are designed by training departments who coordinate the work of subject matter experts and instructional designers to produce eLearning content.

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Learning Management System LMS Personal Personalization 52

Jane Hart

MARCH 1, 2013

They have instant access to multiple knowledge workers via a phone call, email, Twitter post, or LinkedIn InMail. ” So, are you helping to encourage as well as build the new Connected Worker skills in your organisation?

Resources 199

Resources Yahoo Diversity Training Toolkit 199

Instancy

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The transition from traditional or physical classroom-based instruction to digital learning is good for the learners and the eLearning business. VL outperforms traditional eLearning as learners prefer videos that include demonstrations, explainers, interviews, and How-To’s over plain text instructions. Artificial Intelligence.

Compliance Training 52

Compliance Training Trends Corporate eLearning Augmented Reality 52

Instancy

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The transition from traditional or physical classroom-based instruction to digital learning is good for the learners and the eLearning business. VL outperforms traditional eLearning as learners prefer videos that include demonstrations, explainers, interviews, and How-To’s over plain text instructions. Artificial Intelligence.

Compliance Training 52

Compliance Training Trends Corporate eLearning Augmented Reality 52